. -- secure environments. now, as the gentleman from virginia stated, in our view this bill is not perfect. i would have preferred to modernize the undetectable firearms act, to eliminate some loopholes in the law. y requiring that certain metal components be permanent or not . sily removed i would have liked to close that loophole. but frankly i believe that even a loophole in a law is better than no loophole at all, a loophole can be closed down the line, that is a preferred scenario to no law at all. and so i'm not going to oppose this first step because we can't get all of our steps. we will step forward and continue to support the modernization of the undetectable firearms act. this for now is a very good step. it's a step that all of our colleagues should support. i again thank the gentleman from north carolina for his bipartisan leadership. i thank the gentleman from virginia. and i yield back to the gentleman from virginia. mr. scott: thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the ba